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What if the doomers and skeptics are both a little bit right? O ne 27-year-old quit his job, and everybody (including but not limited to the singer-songwriter Sheryl Crow) appears to have lost it. The past two weeks have been dizzying. The 27-year-old, Jacob Coxon, a former researcher at Anthropic, went public with an alarming allegation: That the people inside Silicon Valley's leading AI companies truly believe their products might pose an extinction level threat to humanity. AI safety advocates, often dubbed doomers, have been saying this for over a decade.

In Izmir's historic Kemeralti bazaar, the Akdemir family is finding new customers for a four-generation craft. To the casual passer-by, the Akdemir family's workshop could be any traditional blacksmith's forge. Dozens of hammers and tongs hang from the walls; kebab skewers, knives and axes lie across the benches; a length of steel glows in the fire. But for those familiar with fantasy worlds and gaming, a second look may be required. Just a few steps inside the workshop's shutter-style doors, an enormous forged fantasy sword rests across a countertop, similar to the one wielded by the Lich King in the popular video game World of Warcraft. Elsewhere are weapons inspired by TV series and video games, including Game of Thrones and League of Legends, rendered in steel. At the forge, Suleyman Akdemir, a large man with a furrowed brow, grips a glowing length of metal with long tongs, draws it from the fire, and lays it across the anvil. A few metres away, his father, Omer, 54, reaches for a tool.

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The company also disclosed previously unreported incidents in which its AI models behaved in misaligned ways, including uploading files to the internet without being asked. OpenAI announced a new framework on Wednesday for how it publicly discloses AI misalignment incidents, which the company says it hopes will help inform similar standards across the industry . The company is also releasing new information about several examples of AI model misalignment it identified in the last year. "As models advance and become more widely deployed, decisions about AI development need evidence that people outside the companies building frontier models can examine," Kai Chen, OpenAI's newly appointed head of alignment research, tells WIRED. "We don't believe that the AI industry has solved alignment and monitoring to a sufficient degree to continue responsibly scaling at maximum speed."

The legal battle over whether prediction markets are a form of gambling has overshadowed something else entirely: They're already a new form of media. Every day, a newsletter from the prediction market Polymarket hits my inbox with a subject line that could easily come from any number of politics-focused newspapers or magazines. Recent entries include "Houthis Reveal New Precision Strike Capabilities," "BREAKING: Trump Unveils Green Energy Beam," and "World War I, 2.0?" These dispatches are roundups with breathless summaries of the day's top stories, linking out to corresponding Polymarket markets--yes, this thing will happen; no, it won't. As far as business news analysis goes, the newsletter is not exactly Bloomberg's, or even Emily Sundberg's --but it's recognizably a commercial editorial product, and one that plays an important role in the prediction market ecosystem.

Experts say claims AI could kill all humans through biological weapons development had no scientific basis. Experts say claims AI could kill all humans through biological weapons development had no scientific basis. There have been some shocking claims in recent days about AI safety: we face a 10% chance of doom; AIs are worse than nukes; a "botnet" threatens the entire internet; it's all a big tech psyop. Below, we look at six claims and reactions to them. 'In 6-12 months a swarm could be capable of taking over the entire internet with a persistent botnet - potentially causing hundreds of billions of dollars in damage' - Dario Amodei, chief executive of Anthropic, 12 September 2026 Amodei's concerns should not be entirely dismissed but require a large shaker of salt, said Gary Marcus, an AI sceptic and emeritus professor at New York University.